Trying to find out what happened to Thomas Simpson, between 1841 and 1851. He ma

Question:in Nottm on 5th August 1839, he was recorded as living in Sneinton Nottm, and as having one child living with them. That is the last time he was noted as living with Martha and their children. They are noted as having 8 children. Then in 1859 Martha married for the second time this time to William Hatton.
Where did Thomas go, what happened to him, can any UK genealogists help please.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: in Nottm on 5th August 1839, he was recorded as living in Sneinton Nottm, and as having one child living with them. That is the last time he was noted as living with Martha and their children. They are noted as having 8 children. Then in 1859 Martha married for the second time this time to William Hatton.
Where did Thomas go, what happened to him, can any UK genealogists help please.

Do you have them in 1851 cencus?

Is this them?

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/vie...

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/vie...

This is family in 1861- if it is right one.

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/vie...

Assuming Thomas is not dead in 1861- this bloke looks a likley candidate. And did you mean Martha remarried in 1859?

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx...

Did Thomas make it to 1881? What year did Martha die?

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/vie...

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So is that link for 1861 right or not? If it is right why is her name still Simpson and where is William Hatton?

no clue i just want points

homas Simpson's father was a weaver. Thomas received little formal education. He did attend school in Market Bosworth for a while but his first job was as a weaver. He taught himself mathematics, something which was not uncommon for weavers at that time as we shall see below. He moved away from his home town to take up a position as a schoolmaster in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. From about 1725, when Simpson was fifteen years old, until around 1733, he taught mathematics in Nuneaton.

Simpson had lodgings in Nuneaton with a lady by the name of Swinfield whom he married in 1730. They had one daughter Elizabeth born in 1736 and one son Thomas born in 1738. In fact Simpson and his wife had left Nuneaton before his children were born. The reason which has been reported by his biographers is as follows. He [2]:-

... had to flee to Derby in 1733 after he or his assistant had frightened a girl by dressing up as a devil during an astrology session.

This would certainly fit in with the fact that he was known as the:-

... oracle of Nuneaton, Bosworth and the environs.

Exactly how long he remained in Derby is unknown but we do know that from 1736 he was living in London with his family. He was an early member of the Spitalfields Mathematical Society being one of 49 members in 1736. This Society operated as a working men's club and we know that it was a natural choice for a weaver who taught mathematics since of the members by 1744:-
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hist...